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Nov 20, 2024 | 
csis.org | Smart Women
How can Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) be better utilized to accomplish U.S. strategic objectives? Recently, the Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative released their latest brief: Countering China and Russia: The Hidden Advantages of Women, Peace, and Security. To discuss the findings of the report, Dr. Kathleen McInnis was joined by Dr. Kyleanne Hunter, Director, RAND Women, Peace, and Security Initiative, and Monica S.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
csis.org | Smart Women
Readying the Navy’s Platforms: More Players on the Field - A Conversation with the Vice Chief of Naval Operations
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
csis.org | Daniel Byman |Smart Women |Futures Lab |Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group
Seth G. Jones President, Defense and Security Department; Harold Brown Chair Seth G. Jones is president of the Defense and Security Department and Harold Brown Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He focuses on defense strategy, military operations, force posture, and irregular warfare.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
csis.org | Smart Women
The Global Terrorism Landscape with the Acting Director of the National Counterterrorism Center
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
csis.org | Smart Women
On October 15, Smart Women, Smart Power celebrated its tenth anniversary! The celebration kicked off with a discussion with HON Kathleen H. Hicks, Deputy Secretary of Defense, who sat down with Beverly Kirk, Director of Washington Programs at Syracuse University. The pair discussed her approach to the world’s simultaneous challenges, including the Russia-Ukraine crisis and China - plus she takes a lot of questions from the audience.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
csis.org | Smart Women
Suzanne Spaulding, director of the CSIS Defending Democratic Institutions Project, joins a special crossover episode with CSIS’s Smart Women, Smart Power podcast to discuss election security, the role of election officials, and how to fight disinformation as early voting begins across the nation.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
csis.org | Smart Women
Book Launch: Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
csis.org | Smart Women
On Wednesday, September 18 at 8:30 a.m. ET, CSIS welcomes Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for a conversation on her new book, The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House, moderated by CSIS’s Dr. Kathleen McInnis, director of the Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
csis.org | Smart Women
After 25 years working for the CIA, the Honorable Sue Gordon has served the United States across administrations. She joins Dr. Kathleen McInnis and Lauren Bedula, the Managing Director at Beacon Global Strategies, for a conversation on how she balanced it all as a mother of two—plus, she’ll get into her time in the CIA during the 2012 Benghazi attacks – where the realization came that secrets just aren’t what they used to be.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
csis.org | Smart Women
In 2020, Laura Modi launched Bobbie, the first U.S.-based manufactured organic formula company. Laura joins Dr. Kathleen McInnis and Lauren Bedula, the Managing Director at Beacon Global Strategies, for a discussion on how her company was defined during a national infant formula shortage, including what she learned about the infant formula industry, and how symbolic it is to everything broken in our society for parents.
